RETURN TO FREETOWN which is situated in civil war ravaged Sierra Leone traces the travails of a young, pretty, traditionally gifted Ghanaian healer, who is sexually assaulted and becomes an unfortunate victim of tradition when she is ostracised and banished because of the resultant pre-marital pregnancy. She makes her way through Ivory Coast, Liberia and eventually to the Prisoner of War camps of the RUF-the main rebel movement of the Sierra Leone civil war. In the PoW camps, she deploys her traditional healing powers in the service of humanity; and cures British and Nigerian PoWs of nagging HIV/AIDS infections. Her refusal on traditional grounds to share and document her healing herbs and methods with western-trained orthodox doctors, bent on the commercial exploitation of her healing methods pits her against the greedy side of man and a bloody showdown...